Marching in memory

Holiday Music Motel setting up a Second Line parade to celebrate Triplett, open 'Dark Songs'

1:45 PM,
Oct. 22, 2013

Billy Triplett, the late in-house sound engineer at the Holiday Music Motel in Sturgeon Bay, will be remembered in a celebratory Second Line parade Nov. 1, leading into that night's 'Dark Songs' concert at Third Avenue Playhouse.

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| Your Key to the Door Weekly

The Holiday Music Motel suffered a devastating blow in August when Billy Triplett, the in-house recording engineer for the motel's studio, passed away suddenly after a long battle with congestive heart failure and diabetes.

Since his passing, motel operators pat mAcdonald and melaniejane, who also direct Steel Bridge Songfest and the other various songwriting workshop/live performance festivals at the motel, have contemplated how best to honor Triplett at next week's "Dark Songs" Halloween-themed songwriting event. They sought not only to recognize Triplett throughout "Dark ...